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Elections 2019: Community Radio Toolkit
Key Guides

Cape Town: Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF) (2019), 52 pp.
"Section One (Elections 101) deals with the aspects of voter education and election regulations for both citizens and the media. Section Two (Your Community Radio Station at Election Time) suggests ways to reflect local issues in election coverage and how to make the most of the resources you’ve g ... more
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Tanzania Media Laws: A Handbook for Practitioners

USAID (2019), 70 pp.
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"We Have Failed as a Continent:" Covering an African Atrocity for an African Audience

J. Siguru Wahutu
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Allan Thompson (ed.)
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 237-252
"This ethnic conflict frame performs three functions when used by African journalists. The first is that it works to domesticate the conflict [in Darfur] by relying on already sedimented knowledge among African audiences about identity formation … The second function of this frame is based on know ... more
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Futuros criativos

André Nabais, Alexandro Cardoso, Débora Sanches, Fátima Proença et al.
Lisboa: ACEP Associação para a Cooperação Entre os Povos (2019), 239 pp.
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Mobile Africa: Human Trafficking and the Digital Divide

Mirjam van Reisen, Munyaradzi Mawere, M. Stokmans, K. A. Gebre-Egziabher (eds.)
Bamenda: Langaa (2019), xviii, 739 pp.
"What happens at the nexus of the digital divide and human trafficking? This book examines the impact of the introduction of new digital information and communication technology (ICT) – as well as lack of access to digital connectivity – on human trafficking. The different studies presented in t ... more
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Mobile Connectivity in Emerging Economies: Publics See Mobile Phones and Social Media Bringing Certain Benefits to Them and Their Societies. But These Views Are Paired with Widespread Concerns About Their Impact on Children

Laura Silver, Aaron Smith, Courtney Johnson, Kyle Taylor, Jingjing Jinag, Monica Anderson, Lee Rainie
Pew Research Center (2019), 92 pp.
"Surveys conducted in 11 emerging and developing countries across four global regions [Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia; South Africa and Kenya; India, Vietnam and the Philippines; and Tunisia, Jordan and Lebanon] find that the vast majority of adults in these countries own – or have access to – a ... more
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After Access 2018: A Demand-Side View of Mobile Internet from 10 African Countries

Cape Town: Research ICT Africa; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2019), vii, 38 pp.
"Of all 10 African countries surveyed, only in South Africa is more than half the population online. The Internet penetration rate in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria and Senegal is above the 20% threshold – but even this requires further investigation in a developing country context, where the unaf ... more
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Global Media and Cultural Policy: The European Union and Audiovisual Industries in the Global South

Benjamin A. J. Pearson
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Doctoral Thesis (2019), viii, 193 pp.
"This dissertation explores audiovisual assistance programs through an examination of the largest such program: the EU’s ACPCultures+, which since 2008 has awarded over 50 million Euros to nearly 60 audiovisual training programs, distribution initiatives, and production projects in sub-Saharan Afr ... more
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The Price We Pay: Targeted for Dissent by the Tanzanian State

London: Amnesty International (2019), 36 pp.
"Since President John Magufuli took office in November 2015, the state has applied a raft of repressive laws restricting the rights of opposition politicians, human rights defenders, activists, researchers, journalists, bloggers and other online users. Cumulatively, the application of these laws has ... more
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The Economic Contribution of Copyright-Based Industries in Botswana

Patrick Malope et al.
Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA) (2019), vi, 64 pp.
"The results of the study indicate that copyright industries make a significant contribution to the national economy of Botswana. In 2016, these industries contributed 5.46 per cent to value added and 2.66 per cent to the total labor force; meanwhile, in foreign trade they contributed 1.28 per cent ... more
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Insights from the Entertainment & Media Outlook: 2019-2023. An African Perspective. Getting Personal: Putting the me in Entertainment & Media

Vicki Myburgh, Charles Stuart
PWC, 10th annual ed. (2019), 189 pp.
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Vergeben und vergessen? Erinnerungskultur

iz3w, issue 373 (2019), pp. 16-37
"In den 1980er Jahren verstärkte sich das Unbehagen an der Gedenkkultur mit ihren Heldenerzählungen und nationalen Beschränkungen. Mit der größeren Komplexität des Gedenkens und der Hinwendung zu den sozialen Kosten historischer Ereignisse prägte sich eine neue Erinnerungskultur aus. Diese is ... more
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Impact Report 2017-2019: Make-IT in Africa. Successfully Promoting Tech Entrepreneurship and the Innovation Ecosystems of Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Tunisia

Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2019), 71 pp.
"Make-IT started as a "laboratory" for new types of partnerships between development organisations, business, finance and entrepreneurs. After 2 years of implementation experience, we can proudly say that we have successfully combined the strengths of the public and private sectors to promote digita ... more
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Conflict-Sensitive Journalism: A Practical Handbook for Journalists in Southern Africa

Admire Mare (ed.)
Windhoek: Namibia University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Communication; Social Science Research Council; African Peacebuilding Network (APN) (2019), 96 pp.
"The collection of essays in this volume seek among other things to draw attention to the virtues of conflict-sensitive journalism as a way of transforming the negative effects of ‘war’ journalism. Contributors to the handbook include journalists drawn from the following countries: eSwatini, Les ... more
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Media, Communication and the Struggle for Democratic Change: Case Studies on Contested Transitions

Katrin Voltmer, Christian Christensen, Irene Neverla, Nicole Stremlau, Barbara Thomass, Nebojsa Vladisavljevic, Herman Wasserman (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xvii, 305 pp.
"This book investigates the role of media and communication in processes of democratization in different political and cultural contexts. Struggles for democratic change are periods of intense contest over the transformation of citizenship and the reconfiguration of political power. These democratiz ... more
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Namibia’s Media: Facing the Digital Challenge

Dietrich Remmert
Windhoek: Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR); Namibia Media Trust; Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung (HSS) (2019), 38 pp.
"Overall, it seems that few local media houses have really dedicated significant resources, time and capacity to exploring how best to both utilise and integrate online digital media and mitigate the threat of digitalisation. With regards to newspapers, NMH has probably been most active in seeking t ... more
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Fighting for Survival: Media Startups in the Global South
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Anya Schiffrin
New York: Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) (2019), 180 pp.
"Three years after writing the report Publishing for Peanuts, in which we surveyed 35 media startups mostly from the Global South, we decided to go back and see how the outlets had fared. Our area of interest in 2015 was small-to-medium size independent media outlets with a track record of consisten ... more
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Somalia Media Mapping and Landscape Survey

Washington, DC: USAID (2019), 138 pp.
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Creating Evidence-Based Youth Mental Health Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Description of the Integrated Approach to Addressing the Issue of Youth Depression in Malawi and Tanzania

Stanley Kutcher, Kevin Perkins, Heather Gilberds, Michael Udedi, Omary Ubuguyu, Tasiana Njau, Rex Chapota, Mina Hashish
Frontiers in Psychiatry, volume 10, issue 542 (2019), 8 pp.
"Addressing depression in young people is a health-care policy need in sub-Saharan Africa. There exists poor mental health literacy, high levels of stigma, and weak capacity at the community level to address this health-care need. These challenges are significant barriers to accessing mental health ... more
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Yearbook on Media Quality in Tanzania: 2019 Report

Abdallah Katunzi, Christoph Spurk
Dar es Salaam: University of Dar es Salaam, School of Journalism and Mass Communication (2019), 45 pp.
"The overall quality of media reporting in Tanzania in 2019 has gone down. Compared to 2018, the Media Quality Index for all media dropped from 28% to 26.8%. Among media types, the print media’s performance dropped most. Many aspects illustrate the trend. It is clear that media houses now rely on ... more